[IP] One has to wonder why this would ever happen TWICE. (FOR IP I think)

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Robert Lee <robertslee@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:58:13 -0500
To: "David J. Farber" <dave@farber.net>
Subject: One has to wonder why this would ever happen TWICE. (FOR IP I
think)

U.N. Fears U.S. Bomblets Resemble Food Packets
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. children's fund UNICEF (news - web
sites) expressed concern on Wednesday that Iraqi children might mistake
yellow food packets being handed out by U.S.-led forces with small bombs
with identical coloring.

"Confusing unexploded ordinance with food places children at huge risk
of injury or death," UNICEF said, calling on the military to urgently
change the color of the food packets.

A UNICEF statement said food packets known as "humanitarian daily
rations" that were being handed out by the U.S. and British forces in
Iraq (news - web sites) were covered in a bright yellow plastic wrap.

The color of the wrapping was identical to that of an air-dropped
bomblet that UNICEF identified as a BLU 97.

A similar problem had arisen during the war in Afghanistan (news - web
sites), where the U.S. military eventually changed the wrapping on food
packets to blue, the U.N. agency said.

In Afghanistan, both the food packets and the bomblets were dropped from
U.S. aircraft while in Iraq only the bomblets were being air-dropped.
But children can still confuse the ration and unexploded ordinance,
because of their identical coloring, UNICEF warned.

Robert Lee
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